Recipe - Bojti Halikraleves (Spawn Soup For Lent)

2 Carrots
2 Parsnips
2 md Onions
1 small Celery knob
1 teaspoon Salt
2 Bay leaves
5 Peppercorns, black
1 tablespoon Butter, unsalted
1 tablespoon Flour, allpurpose
1 pn Paprika
One half pound Fish fillet; small pieces
1 Fish head
1 pound Spawn (fish roe)
2 tablespoon Vinegar, wine, white
One fourth cup Sour cream

Peel vegetables and cut into small pieces, and together with salt, bay
leaves and peppercorns cook them in 2 qts water till they are almost soft.
Make a roux with butter and flour, cook for only a few minutes, leaving
it very light. Add paprika and whip One half cup cold water into the roux.
Pour roux into the vegetable mixture and bring again to a boil. Reduce
heat to a simmer.
Add fish pieces and fish head, and simmer soup for 10 minutes. Add spawn
and cook for another 5 minutes.
Pour in the vinegar; just before serving stir in the sour cream. Adjust
salt and vinegar to your taste.
Note: During Lent most Hungarians eat a lot of fish. There are almost
always little bits of fish meat, bones and heads left over and that's when
this soup would be a good beginning for a Lenten meal.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini